Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-11-26
S. GORDON
Saturday, November a6, 1887.
HIDEoUs ANARCHY.

D'oss stA'HAksh'H
DO We realize to the full what AN
srehy msans? Do We comprehend
what these anarchists want:
Anarchy is Liberty" wrote Parsons
in his last days. Whist did he mean
by liberty?
Ii has long been a maximum Of phi
losophy that the liberty of the individ'
ual is limited by the rights of his fel
lows. Law and government are
founded on this principle, The ques-
tiOn exactly at what poin. the rights
Of Others begin is one Of practical
statesmanship. The conditions of po-
litical adjustment vary with the vary
Jog answers TO this question. Rut the
philosophical doctrine of the limitation
OF liberty unier.ies all the organiza-
ton of society.
1t is just this limitation that an.
srshy would destroy. There should
be no artificial restriction on the indl.
vidual will. Whatever Is right in hi
own eyes. that should each man do
There should be no law, no govern.
ment; 10 administration ofjustice.
What would result?
In tue first place, the individual
would have no protection from cupid
ity and malice but his own might
Each must defend himself from vlo
lence aAd robbery. 1t is hardly to be
supposedthat thesboliton of law woulc
rscreate human nature and eradicate
every evil passion. Sucn passion
would merely be unchecked. Secur
ity or life and property would imme
diatsly vanish.
But with security. commerce would
vanish also. Trade, manu- 'sctures. al
tue multifarious appliances Of produc
tion and distribution. are based on tn,
prot :ction of law. Remove that pro
lection and civilization is resolved int,
its elements. IL would not take man,
years for society TO return to the darl
ages.
We would then be like a herd O
wild animals. Force would be th,
only rule. Literature, art, and refine
ment of any kind would be lost.
This is wnst anarchy aud nlhilisn
mean. Read the words of Bakunin
the Russian nihilist:
The old world must be DESTROYED
and replaced by new one.
The beginning of all the lies which
have ground down this world in slav
cry Is God. Tear out Of your heart
the belief ia the existence of God. TO
Ms long "a an atom of that silly super
stition remains In your minds you will
never know what freedom lie.
The first lie Is God. Tue second lie 1
right. Might invented the fiction O
right In order to insure and strengthen
her reign. And when yoI
have freed your minds from fear OF
God and from that childish affection
for the fiction of right, then all the re
naming chains which bind yots an
which are called science, civilization
property. marriage, morality and jul
tice, will snap ssunder like thread,
Let your own happiness be your onl
Law. Our first work must b
the destruction and annihilation q
everything ~ il now exists. Yo
must sccuston yourselves to destro,
everytbing-the good with the bad
For If an atom of this old world re
mains the new will never be created.
Destruction is easy enougb-th
destruction ofeyerything that we hol
precious and sacred. What reason !
there to think that society woul
come up again from that condition G
animal barbsrlsm any better than
has come from the same conditions Ii
the past thirteen centuries?
As all law is to he abolished unde
the anarchist programme, the mors
law, too, would disappear. You wi
notice everywhere cropping out IN th
letters and speeches the notion tina
marriage is one Of the tyrannica inst
tutions of civilization. Among th
monopolies they hate is the monopol.
Of woman by one man. They woul
destroy marriage aud the hom
Johann Most says ii is as wrong for
man 10 have wife of his own as
have dollar of his own. Spies d
clared that men with his ideas care
nothing for the torn OF marriag
Mrs. Aveling in this city sneered ,
marriage, and said that anarchist
makes the relation OF the sexes ma
ter Of convenience and desire only.
Think OF society actuatsd by sue
motives. Ne love, no duty, no mora
ity, Lo religion-nothing but q bio
eous selfishness. Can we get a be
ter description OF hell? That
just where the matter stands. Al
archism and nlhilism are hellisl
They would establish the reign Of he
on earth. Society In It's present for
may not be heaven. But IL 10 infuit
ly better than the debraved and crsz'